Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-06-03
GENERAL NEWS.
A Big Barbecue.

National Butchers Association held a
barbecue at Cheltenham beach yester.
day which is pronounced the largest
and most complete affair of the kind
ever held in this country. Six pits
were dug each forty feet deep. In
these hickory cordwood was piled
and burned down to live Goals when
the roasting began. Fifty beeves and
one hundred lambs were roasted, max.
ing in all something over 1000
pounds of meat which, with an incred.
ible quantity of fresh bread was served
free to the multitude. According to
the number of gate-tickets reported
there were not less than 10000 people
served during the day.
..On Color"
WASHINGTON, May 29.-Yesterday
at the National Drill parade two
Southern companies that broke from
from the line of parade because placed
behind colored company were the
Memphis Merchant Zouaves and the
Vicksburg Southerns. These COM
panies when they entered for the drill
knew there would be colored troops in
the contests for prizes as well as in the
parades. Consequently there is no
excuse for Withdrawing from the pro-
cession. Unfortunately there is no
authority to compel troops to obey the
orders of the commandant of the camp,
as their allegiance is due only to the
Governors of their respective States.
There is one thing the committee can
do, however. 1t can declare that by
failing to obey orders, these companies
have forfeited all rights to prizes.
BaIloonist Drops Seven Hundred Fee,
Upon . Roef.
OsKALOosA, Iowa, May 25.-William
Andrews, an amateur balloonist, was
killed here yesterday evening. When
loosened it shot up with great rapidity
about 100 feet and then took fire
Andrews, who was on a trapeze ten
feet below the balloon, was seen to as.
cend nearly to its mouth in an at.
tempt to put out the fire. Very soon
the balloon collapsed and the doomed
man fell upon a roof. The body was
crushed beyond recognition.
A Frenchman Has Discovered . New
Race Of Beings.
The Worlds Paris special says
Professor Mariapta has made a re.
markable anthropological discovery in
the valley of the Ribas, in the eastern
Pyrenees. In that district he found
numerous groups of persons who were
named by the other inhabitants Ma.
nos. They are dwarfs, and never at.
tained a greater height than four feet
are well built in body and have ex.
ceedingly small hands and feet and
broad hips and shoulders. All have
red hair, prominent cheek bones
square chins and large eyes that have
the oblique tendency Of the Chinese
The men are beardless, or nearly 60
having soft hair on the chin. The
face is full, the skin pale and loose,
and looks as if it had no muscles be-
meath it. The men and women are 60
like each other that only their dress
betrays their sex. Many of them have
swollen, goiter-like necks. The Nanos
are the objects of taunt and ridicule by
the other inhabitants of the valley.
They live separate and the people
marry only among themselves, SO the
race is preserved unique. Their in
telligence is very low. They have no
schooling and no means Of bettering
their existence. Many Of these
whom interviewed" said Prof. Marip-
ia, "could not even tell me where
they lived. They had no conception
Of arithmetic. They are amiable in
manners and seem quite willing to
learn something"
Great Loss from Fire.
CHICAGO, Ill, May 28.-A dispatch
from Marquette says that the forest
fires which devastated the northern
peninsula during the last fortnight, by
careful estimate, has caused total